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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the ultimate purpose of ecstasy?
2. What does Heschel define as the belief in the temporary separation of the soul from the body when a person is asleep, sick, or in a trance state?
3. What attitude does Heschel take to other points of view that he uses in his book?
4. An emotional religion of sympathy is more compatible with the prophet's mentality than a religion of what?
5. From the total perspective, what does Heschel say are demands rather than fulfillments?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is one difference between apathy and pathos, as explained by Heschel?
2. How does Heschel describe God?
3. What is Democritus's view of poets and divine inspiration?
4. Do all scholars agree with Philo's view of ecstasy and the prophets?
5. Describe one theory of the state of mind of the prophets at the time they were receiving the words of God.
6. Describe one theory that Heschel discusses regarding prophets and their revelations from God.
7. What is the purpose of ecstasy, as explained by Heschel?
8. Why does Heschel think it is hard for people to understand the wrath of God?
9. Who was Marcion?
10. To what does Heschel compare the descriptions of prophecy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Heschel explain God's wrath? How does he answer the objection of those who find it hard to understand how a righteous God can be angry? Is there a difference between anger and wrath, in terms of humans, and/or in terms of God? Should humans look at natural disasters as the wrath of God or as the power of God?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the relationship of prophet, priest, and king through history, with emphasis on the period of the Old Testament prophets described in this book.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss prophetic inspiration. What is it? Compare/contrast at least three different explanations/definitions, including Heschel's. Which explanation do you agree with and why?
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